The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said the new National Border Management Strategy (NBMS) will enhance national security, contribute to national economic development and promote social harmony.
NIS Comptroller General, Muhammed Babandede, said this at a “Sensitization Workshop for Stakeholders on the Nigeria Immigration Service National Border Management Strategy,” Friday in Owerri.
Babandede, who was represented by the Assistant Comptroller General in charge of Training and Staff Development, Mrs Cecilia Adeuyi, said the objectives would be achieved through deployment of technology and human capacity as well as implementation of integrated border management concept.
The NIS boss said the strategy would be limited to the movement of persons and would use an extended concept of border management that would include virtual borders through visa regimes, advance passenger information and related approaches as well as aspects of internal management of migration for non-nationals already in the country.
Babadede said the NIS had the mandate to protect national borders by maximizing the positive impacts of migration and the negative aspects, adding that securing national borders should be a joint task and a task that must be achieved by all.
According to him, the decision to undertake a strategic review and renewal of national border management strategy is motivated by major challenges in migration dynamics in the country and resolution of conflict tensions among bordering states.
